This peach iced tea recipe is iced black tea sweetened with a peach syrup. It is not peach bellini or a smoothie.
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Peach Iced Tea
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
Description
Peach Iced Tea. From Olivia.
Ingredients
- 6 black tea bags
- 4 cups (960ml) boiling water
- 2 ripe peaches, chopped
- 1/2 cup (100g) sugar
- 1 cup (240ml) water for the syrup
- 3 cups (720ml) cold water
Instructions
- Steep the tea in the boiling water for 5 minutes. Remove the bags and cool.
- Simmer the peaches, sugar, and 1 cup water for 8 minutes. Mash and strain.
- Stir the syrup into the tea with the cold water.
- Chill and serve over ice.
Notes
Cool the tea before it hits a glass pitcher of ice, or the pitcher can crack and the tea goes cloudy.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Drink
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Steep
Five minutes. Longer and the tea turns bitter under the peach.
Syrup
Strain the skins. They are bitter in the glass.
Sweet
The syrup is the only sugar. Taste before you add more.
Ice
In the glass. Ice in the pitcher waters the last servings.
Nutrition (estimated)
About 70 calories per serving. Estimate only, not a lab test.
FAQ
Peach nectar?
A cup of nectar instead of the syrup. It is sweeter and flatter.
Green tea?
It works and tastes grassy next to the peach. Black tea is the base.
Cloudy tea?
Hot tea poured on ice clouds. Cool it first.
Keep?
Three days in the fridge. The peach taste fades after that.